graduation weekend

Ah, it's graduation weekend here at the University. That means lots of parents, which means people bringing handfuls and handfuls of sweatshirts, shotglasses, mugs, and t-shirts to my register. Which is SO FUN. I just looove wrapping up shotglasses.

My boss and I were talking about how a lot of the parents are a species unto their own. They act very entitled, and I'm often shocked at the tone of voice they use with me.

"I'm looking for a book called 'Road to Florence.'
"Okay, let me look that--" I'm cut off by the man, who says,
"That's a city in Italy."
Does he think I'm that stupid? Really?
"Yes, I know, I've been there. More than once."
"You have?" He says this so incredulously.
I very stiffly tell him that it's on the second floor in the travel writing section. Have fun with him, second floor people!

Today my boss told me that while he was in the elevator, a woman asked him about a book. Since, you know, he's not a computer and doesn't have our entire 2.5 million dollar inventory in his head, and it was an uncommon book, he didn't have an answer, but referred her to the second floor information desk. She said to him, "You don't know every book in your store?" WHAT KIND OF QUESTION IS THAT? WE HAVE THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS OF BOOKS. That she would expect him to know off the top of his head where "The Da Vinci Code" is is one thing. But asking if we have a completely random eastern religion book is ridiculous. And WE'RE supposed to be the uneducated ones? Uh huh.


Some numbers:
30: number of minutes after getting rolls from Bertucci's that it took my boss to throw a roll at my head
15: number of seconds it took me to bean him back
10: number of mugs one person bought
9: number of days in a row i've been at the store
6: number of shot glasses they also bought
5: number of times i inwardly sighed while wrapping up said mugs and shotglasses
1: number of times i sighed out loud the entire day (which is really, really good)
1: number of hits returned when you type "I hate this place" into the computer
infinite: number of times i have heard my boss say, "bite me" in the past 5 days